Art is pretty boring. In comparison with the world now, once it was a cornerstone of civilisation and now it's more of a t shirt idea. This convoluted nattering is boring enough without the real idea even under proper scrutiny. So many people make marks, objects, patterns in sand, write on Walls, doodle and call it their "art". They play instruments, make music, perform, lie, dance, cook and it is all called art. It's like calling the time I kicked dandelions off my neighbours lawn 'a holocaust'. Where is the quality control. I'm all for expression. Express all Over the place, but does everyone have to waffle so much abject excrement about it? I was relooking through the 'paintings' Bukowski did. I like his books and some of his paintings but above the pictures there was a quote like "The different between life and art is that art is more bearable".
This dampened my interest and i saw the paintings in a new light. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any delusions, and I hate the crap I do worse than anyone who dislikes my work ever could. But there is so much crap. People rollering random colour straight out the tube, splashing paint, calling it abstract. Putting lines of words onto an Internet site and proclaiming poetry. It's fine if people have shallow and relatively meaningless means of self expression, I'm fine with that, but why be so goddam pretentious about it. Acknowledge it's true purpose. You enjoy it, you're trying to fill time, you want to pass on a message to people. But do we have to do this whole spiel about art or "creativity" because what is going on is neither of those things.
In summation, when 'expressing' yourself don't maintain that you are passing information from some kind of higher power or that you are distilling your subconscious through a series of multi media sensory experiments, or that blah blah. And remember above all else... cave men didn't have fucking websites.
(below: a real life cave painting)
